时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2017(十)月


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This is AP News Minute.


A gunman on the 32nd floor of a Las Vegas hotel casino rained heavy fire down on a crowd of over 22,000 at an outdoor country music festival Sunday night, turning the expanse into a killing 1 ground, from which there was little escape. At least 58 people died in what was the dealiest mass shooting in modern US history. Authorities say at least 515 people were also injured in the attack. The gunman, identified as Stephen Craig Paddock, a 64-year-old retiree, had as many as ten guns with him, including rifles, police said.


President Donald Trump 2 and the First Lady led a moment of silence Monday afternoon on the White House's south lawn to honor the victims of the deadly Las Vegas shooting.


And three Americans won a Nobel Prize for discovering key genetic 3 gears of the body's 24-hour biological clock, the mechanism 4 best known for causing jet lag when it goes awry 5. The Nobel Assembly awarded the $1.1-million Nobel Prize in Physiology 6 or Medicine to Jeffrey Hall, Michael Rosbach and Michael Young.


Tracy Brown, Associated Press with AP News Minute.



1 killing
n.巨额利润;突然赚大钱,发大财
  • Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
  • Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。
2 trump
n.王牌,法宝;v.打出王牌,吹喇叭
  • He was never able to trump up the courage to have a showdown.他始终鼓不起勇气摊牌。
  • The coach saved his star player for a trump card.教练保留他的明星选手,作为他的王牌。
3 genetic
adj.遗传的,遗传学的
  • It's very difficult to treat genetic diseases.遗传性疾病治疗起来很困难。
  • Each daughter cell can receive a full complement of the genetic information.每个子细胞可以收到遗传信息的一个完全补偿物。
4 mechanism
n.机械装置;机构,结构
  • The bones and muscles are parts of the mechanism of the body.骨骼和肌肉是人体的组成部件。
  • The mechanism of the machine is very complicated.这台机器的结构是非常复杂的。
5 awry
adj.扭曲的,错的
  • She was in a fury over a plan that had gone awry. 计划出了问题,她很愤怒。
  • Something has gone awry in our plans.我们的计划出差错了。
6 physiology
n.生理学,生理机能
  • He bought a book about physiology.他买了一本生理学方面的书。
  • He was awarded the Nobel Prize for achievements in physiology.他因生理学方面的建树而被授予诺贝尔奖。
学英语单词
a Kempis
after line
air-vapor temperature
antipoetry
Ariidae
automysophobia
back-haul airlift
beheading
bending test under three-point loading
betrothments
black tellurium (nagyagite)
bladdry
blood group substance
Blum measure
boat bugs
cable company
carcinoma epitheliale adenoides
central forest type
cephacetrile
China National Machinery Import and Export Corporation
city-baseds
clear paint
commonality.
cross - country running
dermic
double control
DSAA
elevation drive motor
enanthic
Endosporae
esophageal perforation
eugeosyncline
execute only flag
failure rate acceleration factor
finalizer
floor guide
flux of light method
four ball test rig
framely
fresh-looking
future
gondars
Holzknecht's scale
hot restart
hyperinnervation
hypopharyngeal styli
idler shaft bearing cup
intergyral
iridium monoiodide
jack-deuce
knock on wood
Lithocarpus mekongensis
lotharingia
low-level recovery
main storage unit
make sure of
mid-band gain bandwidth
MK-595
modified Miller code
Mouscron
moving floor body
nepheline type
noise overshoot
noxious gas
oblate spheroid
organoleptic estimation
pain point
pay the piper
peritonitis arenosa
Platystencephalia
pressed block-shaped fuel element
Rafai
RDMA
replicon
report controller
resistance methanometer
reversing mill moor
Rudamina
rugal
semicoma
sensory circle
shkumbin i dunic?s
Simmons-Smith reaction
slice from
stepwise decomposition
straightfoward
tank-trailer
tidemill
tone-row
Tunis sheep
two-component flow
Union Postal Arab
university diploma
unswapped
utility glider
veg out
vocal print
wak
well-off production teams
wherenesses
Wiccanized
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